February 23, 2025 — Spiritualism with Shannon Taggart

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return appearance from Shannon Taggart. She first became aware of Spiritualism as a teenager, when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather's death. In 2001, while working as a photographer, she began taking pictures where that message was received, Lily Dale, New York, home to the world's largest Spiritualist community—proceeding to other such communities as England’s Arthur Findlay College. Taggart expected to spend one summer figuring out the tricks of the Spiritualist trade. Instead, Spiritualism’s mysterious processes, earnest practitioners, and neglected photographic history became an inspiration. Her project evolved into an eighteen-year journey that has taken her around the world. In this interview, she also discusses the 11th Annual Symposium at Lilly Dale, NY, set for July 23, 2025 through July 26, 2025. Events include: Spoon Bending Party, with Shannon Taggart and guests, The Paranormal Object, with Jack Hunter, The Cinematic Séance: A History of Spiritualism and Film, with Murray Leeder, The Mystery of Gef the Talking Mongoose (really), with Christopher Josiffe, Richard Shaver: A Personal Mythology of Secret Caves and Ancient Rocks, with Doug Skinner, and much more. Her website: www.shannontaggart.com

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.3	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:33.0	Three years later, Shannon Taggart returns to the Paraccast for another few hours of verbal abuse from us.
0:40.7	Now that's not fair because she's a nice woman and she's doing some really fascinating work into spirituality and everything.
0:47.8	And we'll want to cover that in a few minutes.
0:50.5	So welcome back, Shannon.
0:53.0	Thanks for having me.
0:55.1	Three years later, you must have been real busy.
0:57.9	But before we get into that, I did want to mention something here.
1:02.1	And I sent you a copy of this.
1:04.5	There's a story now that a California Democratic Assemblyman guy named Chris Rogers
1:10.7	is introducing a bill in the state of California. that a California Democratic Assemblyman, a guy named Chris Rogers,
1:14.8	is introducing a bill in the state of California to designate Bigfoot as the official state cryptid.
1:22.1	If you're going to have a cryptid, you might as well make it official.
1:24.9	Yes.
1:26.6	Now, just to understand here about this, they're not asking for money
1:33.1	or an appropriation. It's just a label so they could just throw this thing through the legislature.
1:38.3	And it'd be interesting to see if people are willing to vote to pass this bill.
1:44.3	Wow. Wow.
1:45.8	Wow.
1:46.6	It would be.
1:47.3	Then would we have the mothman would be the state crypted for Virginia then?
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